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Please Vote for Vertex Fitness as the Best of the Main Line & Western Suburbs 2018! Dear Friends, every year Main Line Today Magazine gives the community a chance to choose its favorite businesses in every category imaginable. This year, we’re asking you to help us be named as the Best of the Main Line…

Turns Out, 70 Seconds as the Set Length is a Long Freaking Time I just found out something rather profound. It turns out that the set length in the Vertex Fitness gym actually only lasts for about 70 seconds. Not three years, not the rest of my natural born life, but about 70. Blessed. Seconds. I’m…

MedX Medical Exercise Equipment is Coming to Vertex Fitness We’ve got some very exciting news–Medx Medical Exercise Equipment is coming to Vertex Fitness, making us one of the only personal training studios in the United States to offer this excellent full line of equipment. What is MedX? MedX is the brain child of legendary fitness visionary…

Are You Over Thinking Exercise Earlier this week, I was training a client on the row machine. The row machine is a typical exercise performed to work on the upper back muscles. Funny enough, I noticed the client over thinking their form that they almost forgot how to do the exercise! Their body was so…

Can I Exercise with an Injury? If you hurt yourself over the weekend, you may be asking yourself whether you need to cancel your personal training appointment or if you can still exercise with an injury. The answer, of course, depends on several different factors, but overall you may be surprised to find out how…

November is Diabetes Awareness Month Diabetes awareness month should really be called exercise awareness month. Of all the health risks associated with an inactive lifestyle and unhealthy diet, Type II diabetes is one of the most common and debilitating. While Type I diabetes tends to affect younger people and is thought to be caused by…

Is a Post-Workout Beer Really That Bad For You? How Many Drinks Until Recovery is Spoiled? There’s nothing like getting done a tough workout on a Saturday afternoon and cracking open a cold one. When you feel accomplished and strong after a solid workout, a drink can be a nice reward. Now, if that drink…

What Do You Get For Your Halloween Candy Calories? As a trainer, the last thing I want to tell everyone is that if they eat any Halloween candy at all, they won’t be healthy. The road to fitness and good health just isn’t a zero-sum game like that. It requires gradual changes and shifts in…

How Strength Training Can Help Prevent or Reverse Osteoporosis What is Osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease in which the bones in our bodies become weak and brittle. Bones are a very dense tissue made up mostly of collagen and calcium. When someone is diagnosed with osteoporosis, this means that the bones are losing so much…

Calorie Counting Might Be the Worst Thing to Happen to Food Since Listeria. I’m trying to think of something that makes me enjoy eating food less than counting every calorie I eat, and all I’m coming up with is food poisoning. The first time I tried calorie counting, it was after my doctor put me…